Discord: Slash Commands in DM not working for sharded bots
Timeline of updates
- resolved
For approximately 45 minutes a defect in the Discord API causes Slash Commands to fail to load in Direct Messages for sharded Bots. Slash Commands in servers and in DMs for non-sharded Bots were not impacted. The defect has been identified and rolled back.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Discord, started 2023-05-30 23:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Slash Commands in DM not working for sharded bots
- Vendor
- Discord
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/discord/incidents/2dfv0c6tfcp3
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